Defining the "T-Shaped Designer"
On the "T-shaped designer" and the garden of experience.
My Work
What's new?
Certainly not this site. It's terribly out of date; I'll get things back on track soon.
DrumKit Arduino
A concept design for an educational, robotic drumset.
Recent Web Projects
RPI Portal – Links to all of RPI's online resources, on one page and organized for better findability. Currently undergoing a redesign with even better information architecture.
Thinking "Instead" of the Box
I spoke about creative problem-solving at the Technology Student Association's national conference on June 29. You can view or download a revised slideshow here. For further reading and other resources on this topic, see this page.
Web Design Resources for Students
A whitepaper on website optimization, written for FIRST robotics teams, is available on ChiefDelphi. More whitepapers are coming soon.
Music
Grooveshark has bad metadata for much of its music library. When I listen to albums on Grooveshark, I create public playlists with correct album/track names and track order.
Latest Updates
DrumKit Arduino (and the Politics of Education)
One of my main projects from the fall '10 semester: a concept design for a modular robotic drum set that brings together programming, music, math, and science as an educational product.
Divergent Thinking in Context
In my presentation from this summer, I discussed divergent/convergent thinking as a part of the general problem-solving process. Divergent thinking in particular has a role at every stage of the design process.
A Supreme Being
What do the Freemasons mean by "belief in a Supreme Being"?
The Ten-Year Promise
With the establishment of this website, I'm making a resolution to preserve all page URLs at least until 2020.
Introducing Instead of the Box
After months of designing and writing code, Instead of the Box is launching. The site, driven by a from-scratch, flexible PHP backend, will be the home of my portfolio, my blog on design and design theory, and other projects.